![]() ![]() Guests asking for tours face a gantlet of greeters, trained to distinguish “superrich clients” from “ineligible visitors,” in the words of Emma Spence, a former greeter at the Palm Beach show. On the docks, brokers parse the crowd according to a taxonomy of potential. On the cusp of the summer season, it affords brokers and builders and owners (or attendants from their family offices) a chance to huddle over the latest merchandise and to gather intelligence: Who’s getting in? Who’s getting out? And, most pressingly, who’s ogling a bigger boat? Nevertheless, Mercer’s package was a modest one the largest superyachts are more than five hundred feet, on a scale with naval destroyers, and cost six or seven times what he was asking.įor the small, tight-lipped community around the world’s biggest yachts, the Palm Beach show has the promising air of spring training. The owner, Robert Mercer, the hedge-fund tycoon and Republican donor, was throwing in furniture and accessories, including several auxiliary boats, a Steinway piano, a variety of frescoes, and a security system that requires fingerprint recognition. A typical offering: a two-hundred-and-three-foot superyacht named Sea Owl, selling secondhand for ninety million dollars. The Victorians would have had some questions at the fortieth annual Palm Beach International Boat Show, which convened this March on Florida’s Gold Coast. ![]() In the Victorian era, it was said that the length of a man’s boat, in feet, should match his age, in years.
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